In a massive ruling by the Illinois Board of Elections, the objections of two men to Sen. Cruz’s natural-born citizenship status were tossed out in a tersely worded decision issued the same day Cruz won the Iowa caucus.

The Monday decision was made in response to motions by objectors Lawrence Joyce and William Graham. The two Illinois residents filed separate motions claiming Cruz’s Calgary birth made him ineligible for the presidency under Article II of the United States Constitution, which states no one “except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President.”

“The candidate is a natural born citizen by virtue of being born in Canada to his mother who was a U.S. citizen at the time of his birth,” the board said, ruling Cruz was eligible since he “did not have to take any steps or go through a naturalization process at some point after birth.”

The board capped off its decision with a terse statement likely aimed at lawyers for the Democrats and billionaire businessman Donald Trump: “Further discussion on this issue is unnecessary.”

Ted Cruz’s lawyers had responded to the suit by pointing toward two men born out of the United States who had been ruled eligible to run.

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Arizona Sen. John McCain was the most recent example, who ran for the GOP nomination in 2000 and won it in 2008. McCain had been born in Panama while his father was serving in the Panama Canal Zone.

Less recently, George Romney — former Michigan governor, CEO of American Motors Corporation and father of Mitt — was eligible to run for the 1968 GOP nomination in spite of the fact he had been born in Mexico to American parents.

In spite of this, Trump has made uncertainty over Ted Cruz’s status a cornerstone of his campaign, going as far as to call him an “anchor baby” in an appearance in New Hampshire last week.

“Now, Ted Cruz may not be a U.S. citizen, right?” Trump told the audience, adding that, “but, he’s an anchor baby, no, he’s an anchor baby — Ted Cruz is an anchor baby in Canada.”